A new Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) as well as four supporting Techniques documents were published 19 November 2004. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) invites your comments by 3 January 2005. (Check WAI Web site for possible extension.) Read the WAI Interest Group announcement which suggests questions to address when commenting on this draft and explains how to submit comments.

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (ATAG 2.0) provides guidelines for designing authoring tools that support production of Web content that is accessible for people with disabilities. The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG) published a Last Call Working Draft of ATAG 2.0, on 22 November 2004 and invites your comments by 18 January 2005. Read the WAI Interest Group announcement for suggestions of questions to address, and to find out how to submit comments.

Presentations from Web Accessibility Best Practices Exchange (BPE) trainings on 9-10 February 2004 in Madrid, Spain and on 6 July 2004 in Paris, France are available. While the two-day BPE training in Madrid covered a wide spectrum of topics, the hands-on BPE training in Paris focused on evaluating Web sites for accessibility. The titles of the presentations in the "Presentations" sections of each BPE training home page link to the contributions of the presenters.

W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) addresses accessibility of the Web for people with disabilities, through a variety of activities, including technical and guidelines development and educational work.

WAI Training, Implementation, Education and Support (WAI-TIES) is a project of WAI, funded by the European Commission Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, to increase training and implementation support on Web accessibility in Europe.

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